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well you cannot, that would be against our will and our license
but you can subscribe for a license to do so
It depends what is considered whitelabel, but you can offer it as long as you include access to the modified source and retain the copyrights and licenses of the source. Removing all windmill logo's etc is not something that's not allowed, as long as you link to the source code of those changes.
The full service would have to be open-source, not just the removal of our logos, we consider it to be a modification of the software to be wrapped into an external service that serves external users.
yes, correct
anyway just know that we don't want to compete commercially with our own product and will be zealous in the application of the license if you were to serve windmill to external users without an agreement with us. If you are non-commercial, we will tolerate it.
you should be 🙂 it has a license and the license should be adhered to; if people don't like it, then build your own or buy yours. simple 🙂
it's just that the agpl is interpreted a lot and abused by both sides (the company + users)
*interpreted wrong
The question was pretty much asking for our blessing, I am explicitely saying no and that we will make our best to prevent it. This kind of abuse render this kind of project less viable and hurt the whole open-source ecosystem. I do not want to have to make windmill open-core because of abusers.
right and that's good; so it should indeed be clear what users can and cannot do as the agpl is one of least well understood ones (the weirdest properties are attributed to it on reddit and such, which makes it highly unpopular for company use) . and open core is crap , so hope it doesn't happen!
To be honest, that it is unpopular for comapny use is a feature, if you use windmill at your company at sufficiently large scale that you might worry about AGPL implications. we rather you buy our cheap commercial license than lawyers to tell you that you're in a gray area.
but to be clear, it's fine to use windmill at your company and it's completely valid to stick to the community/open-source edition for internal uses forever.
for community/open-source edition for internal uses how we change the windmill logo?
You can't without an enterprise edition, that's akin to removing proper attribution. And any other changes you would make to the software, you would need to open source.
I'm locking these kind of discussions, they're counter productive. It's a free and open source product, but we're not sympathetic to the cause of abusing it.